They would be more likely to give the information, if they possess it, to a well known firm of solicitors like ourselves than to any private individual.
I can say this, that I shall for the present remain principally in London, and I think that I am more likely to come upon a clew here than elsewhere.
They are foreigners, and the first thing they would try would be to put a dagger between my shoulders as I walked up and down on deck at night, or, more likely still, creep into my cabin and stab me while I was asleep.
Think of all this and ask yourself whether the world is more likely to be a believer in the unity of the idea, or in the multiplicity of phenomena.
Let me further ask, whether he is more likely to control sorrow when he is alone or when he is in company.
Concerning the false philosopher, Socrates argues that the best is most liable to corruption; and that the finer nature is more likely to suffer from alien conditions.
There is no absurdity in supposing that he may have laid his labours aside for a time, or turned from one work to another; and such interruptions would be more likely to occur in the case of a long than of a short writing.
A gathered bosom, or "bad breast," as it is sometimes called, is more likely to occur after a first confinement and during the first month.
If a lady marry late in life, or if she be very heavy in pregnancy carrying the child low down she is more likely to have distention of the veins.
Menstruation during nursing is more likely to weaken the mother, and consequently to deteriorate her milk, and thus make it less sweet and less pure.
Thirdly, on account of the concourse of many adorers, by reason of which their prayer is more likely to be heard, according to Matt.
The Philosopher associates pride with feigned fortitude, not that it consists precisely in this, but because man thinks he is more likely to be uplifted before men, if he seem to be daring or brave.
As to the other great question, the question, what becomes of man after death, we do not see that a highly educated European, left to his unassisted reason, is more likely to be in the right than a Blackfoot Indian.
But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
The first question is, whether a government, proposing to itself the propagation of religious truth as one of its principal ends, is more likely to lead the people right than to lead them wrong?
Now we cannot understand how it can be laid down that it is the duty and the right of one class to direct the opinions of another, unless it can be proved that the former class is more likely to form just opinions than the latter.
Dolly felt that her father would be more likely to do it if she were not to interfere at all; but she could not say that.
Them as is plain-featured is more likely to stay at home and be quiet.
The execution of this plan would necessarily be attended with expense, and that not inconsiderable, but it is doubted whether any other can be devised which would be less liable to that objection or more likely to succeed.
It would therefore appear that the symbol of the city is more likely to have been a simple crescent than the so-called star and crescent.
However the available evidence certainly seems to show that the round object we are considering is more likely to have signified the cosmic egg than the solar orb.
Whether by prudent conduct they might have secured a repeal of the persecuting act is uncertain; it is more likely, from their conduct, that they had made their existence incompatible with the security of any tolerable government.
It is more likely that in the inveterate frenzy of those years men had no leisure to remember that heresy existed.
He may take his horse into its stable, or, more likely, he may leave it at some place he may know of on the road leading out through Putney, and then arrive at his lodgings just about daybreak.
Still, it is more likely he is to be found in the lowest dens, among rascals of his own kidney.
Croup is more likely to prevail when the wind is either easterly or north-easterly.
The idea that it will prevent cold is erroneous, as the rapid evaporation of heat which the brandy causes is more likely to give than to prevent cold.
It is more likely to weaken his blood, and thus to make his blood impure!
The succeeding relief, however, if it comes, is sometimes more complete and is more likely to be associated with a state of psychic health.
They know that the bad example is more likely to be copied than to be shunned, and that the low ideal, being easy to, follow, is more likely to be imitated than the high ideal.
And this is more likely to be the plan adopted, because the revolution is not to be violent, and, indeed, cannot take place without some readjustment of the home life.
Of course we cannot tell whether a particular word will be understood by our readers, but, in case there is doubt, it is well to substitute one that is more likely to be understood.
A poorly written composition is, however, more likely to be considered bad than one that is well written.
Besides, the other regiments have done something in the way of fighting already while we have not fired a shot; and I think that Sir Colin would be more likely to choose the 75th, or, in fact, any of the other regiments than us.
I wish the wind would freshen; but I fancy that it is more likely to die away.
But it is more likely to have been Britain, though in this case the relegation would have taken place under Trajan.
A theme so unnatural would have found little favour with the Attic poets; the subject is more likely to have been approached by the Alexandrian writers, whom Catullus often copies.
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